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General, have always permitted biased information. they've also permitted informants who have a financial motive. in fact, as long as it's not too egregious, you can even omit that information from the warrant application and it won't be fatal to a warrant. in other words, this kind of thing has been going on for a long time. as a defense attorney, i would like to see a little more transparency. but the reality is that fisa has never required that and, frankly, the constitution has never required that. at least since franks v. delaware since, to this day, since the '70s, still provides the veh...

How the fisa process works? >> there are members of congress who have high degrees of credibility when it comes to national security matters. devin nunes is not among them. >> i want to play this. this is the minority leader nancy pelosi. what she told chris cuomo earlier tonight. >> i want to tell you something. the republican party has as said crossed over to cover up. they're deadly afraid of the russia investigation. we don't want the investigation to be anything but based on the law and the facts. and let the investigation proceed. that's the right thing to do for our country. we have to ...

Amanda, let's talk about this memo. because the doj has said it would be extremely reckless to release it. what's your reaction? why jump on it? >> my first question is, do republicans really want to stake their credibility on the russia investigation based on something a staffer of devin nunes has written? i think that's a pretty risky proposition, given the representative's track record, he had this scandal he's trying to cover saying there's illegal activities going on by the white house, he has a secret source, lo and behold his secret source is the white house, that's why he had to recuse...

This very sensitive information about how the fisa process works. that's something that somebody in mccabe's position has depended on for years. to have that undermine him would be something that would really upset someone like mccabe. >> and j.d. maddox, you were at cia, but these fisa warrants are the most secret, sensitive issues that go before a judge. this is a special judge who only deals with these issues and has special training in that regard. and they're never released. >> yeah, andrea, that's right. it's pretty tragic to see this process being kind of raked through the mud like this...